No question, Dog Man dominates the top 20, usually taking up most of the top 10 spaces, with the most recent title at number 1. The only time that has happened in the past 2 years was in July 2020, when Baby Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Roller Skates vaulted to the top spot (see "July 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels").
Dog Man’s reign at the top may be over, though, because this time it was displaced by another Dav Pilkey book, Cat Kid Comic Club, which was released on December 1. Dog Man isn’t in the doghouse, though. In fact, that series accounts for fully half of the top 20, with nine different volumes and a box set. Which means that Pilkey has authored over half the top 20.
Furthermore, 17 of the top 20 titles are Graphix books, including Karen’s Roller Skates and three original Raina Telgemeier graphic novels, plus her adaptation of the first Baby-Sitters Club book.
Only one new release debuted on the December chart: The Dark Secret, the latest volume of the graphic adaptation of Tui T. Sutherland’s Wings of Fire novels. These books make the chart fairly often, and the new one did well enough to outsell a number of Dog Man books.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – December 2020 (11/29/20 - 1/2/21) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
CAT KID COMIC CLUB HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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2 |
DOG MAN: GRIME AND PUNISHMENT HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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3 |
DOG MAN: FETCH-22 HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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5 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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6 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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7 |
WINGS OF FIRE BOOK 4: THE DARK SECRET |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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8 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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9 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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10 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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12 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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13 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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14 |
NEW KID |
JERRY CRAFT |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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15 |
DOG MAN: THE EPIC COLLECTION |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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16 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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17 |
CLASS ACT |
JERRY CRAFT |
HARPERCOLLINS |
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18 |
SISTERS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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19 |
THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB VOL. 1: KRISTY'S GREAT IDEA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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20 |
BABY-SITTERS LITTLE SISTER VOL. 2: KAREN'S ROLLER SKATES |
KATY FARINA |
GRAPHIX |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of December graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
December 2020 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
December 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
December 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
December 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
December 2020 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market. The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we've removed those titles from the ranking above.
For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."